Space Oddity was originally recorded on the 20th of June 1969, and released, less than 3 weeks later (those were the days!) in early July of that year. It was included on Bowie’s 2nd album, called David Bowie, in the UK and, Man of Words/Man of Music, in the US. Later, it was reissued in … Read more
Recorded on 15th April 1977 at CBS Television City, Los Angeles, USA Iggy Pop – vocals David Bowie – keyboards / backing vocals Tony Sales – bass / backing vocals Hunt Sales – drums / backing vocals Ricky Gardiner – guitar
Bowie and Tin Machine (Reeves Gabrels, Tony & Hunt Sales) are caught cutting up behind the scenes of a rehearsal for their performance on Dutch TV’s Countdown in 1991. They joke around and run through “You Belong In Rock-N-Roll” and “One Shot” as well as a solo snippet of “Goodbye Mr. Ed” with Bowie on … Read more
The Groninger Museum auctions exhibition banners with iconic David Bowie images for cancer charity (KWF Kankerbestrijding) through Catawiki.com David Bowie discovered his cancer was terminal just shortly before he died. To support the charity KWF Kankerbestrijding which funds cancer research in The Netherlands, the Groninger Museum auctions five large banners for the Groninger exhibition ‘David … Read more
David Bowie – Introduction/Don't Let Me Down & Down – Rare Promo HD Remaster from Tin_Man on Vimeo. This is apparently from an alternate version of the 1993 ‘Black Tie White Noise’ film broadcast on Japanese television some time ago. I first took the audio track and added some slight noise reduction to the spoken … Read more
Back in 1999 it was easy to view the World Wide Web as a passing fad. Google was a year old, Facebook was about five years down the road, and most people were still using noisy dial-up to get online. But as this video shows, the internet had an early advocate in David Bowie The … Read more
It’s a year today since David Bowie died. His death-day (January 10) and his birthday (he would have been 70 on January 8) are being marked by both small-scale local tributes in tiny venues and high-profile concerts in cities such as London, New York and Los Angeles. Sydney, where Bowie spent a lot of time … Read more
